We build AI voice agents for small and medium-sized businesses so they never miss a call and can focus on the work they actually love. Our AI handles every call automatically. But voice is just the beginning.

Our vision: to build the world's first fully automated CRM. 8,000+ customers. €5M ARR. ~30% monthly growth.

Target until EOY: €30M.

We live ownership: you own your work end-to-end. No politics, few meetings, direct feedback.

Your Role You own everything after a candidate signs, from contracts through offboarding, and automate as much of it as possible. We are looking for someone to build the structural backbone to enable rapid scaling.

Contracts & onboarding: Manage employment contracts for all employees (direct and indirect employment), organize equipment, accounts, workspaces, and support relocation of international colleagues.

HR tooling & automation: introduce and own an HRIS tool, automate workflows across systems.

Payroll: Organize and own internal payroll processes, including variable compensation calculation of all sales teams.

Compliance & people legal: Support international hiring (EU and non-EU), time-tracking, collective agreements, international taxation topics, etc.

Compensation:



Manage and monitor compensation bands across teams/countries.

Events & culture: Organize internal and external events (hackathons, off-sites, etc.) Offboarding: Manage offboarding of employees. Later, people development: Design feedback cycles, L&D;, career development (e.g. SDR academy). What to Expect Solo, end-to-end ownership of everything people operations. Hands-on operational work to build the foundation for automation/scaling.

Direct impact: your work has immediate influence on the culture of fonio.

Flat hierarchies: close collaboration across departments.

What You

Bring ~3+ year of People Ops, HR, or Operations experience, ideally startup or scale-up. ~ Knowledge about Spanish labor law, payroll, and collective agreements ~ Structured, hands-on working style. ~ AI and automation/workflow skills. ~ People-first, low ego. You thrive under intensity. ~ Strong English skills.

What We Offer ~€65,000 to €80,000 + Equity ~ Relocation support ~ Daily lunch and dinner ~ Equipment of your choice ~ Regular team off-sites ~ On-site in Barcelona, working directly with the core-team Hiring Process #20 min intro call #30 min skill interview #20 min culture call

📌 People Operations Manager (Spain) (Barcelona)
🏢 fonio
📍 Barcelona